Definitions for pilings

pilings pil·ing

Spelling: [pahy-ling]
IPA: /ˈpaɪ lɪŋ/

Pilings is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 97 anagrams from letters in pilings (giilnps).

Definitions for pilings

noun

  1. a mass of building piles considered collectively.
  2. a structure composed of piles.

Origin of pilings

First recorded in 1400-50, piling is from the late Middle English word pylyng. See pile2, -ing1

Examples for pilings

Anina nosed its bow into this doorway, and grasping one of the pilings near at hand, brought it to rest.

They are necessary so that we can increase our annual output of poles, pilings, cooperage and veneer.

Around three of the pilings brush and grass had gathered, picked up from the current.

That was the unmistakable lurch we felt, but no one expects to run into pilings in mid-ocean, so every one knew what it was.

"Better keep an eye out for logs or pilings," Scotty warned.

It was midday when we tied Gadabout to the pilings beside the bridge, and the weather was hot and sultry.

Some of them gathered under the pier, clustering about the pilings.

Standing on the upper deck, we could look down stream to the place where our houseboat had been stopped by the row of pilings.

The air was damp and cold and the waters of the bay were lapping softly against the pilings which supported the building.

Word Value for pilings
Scrable

10

Words with friends

14

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